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1. Sahara (I) (1943)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War
After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 9,767
2. Treasure Island (1934)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Family
Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger
Votes: 3,176 | Gross: $2.54M
3. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, War
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop
Votes: 4,552
4. Algiers (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 3,250
5. Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Eddie Albert
Votes: 1,704
6. Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
103 min | Drama
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a ... See full summary »
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey
Votes: 993
7. The Pagan (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis
Votes: 423
8. Our Blushing Brides (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Three department-store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than $20 per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 927
9. Dynamite (1929)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye
Votes: 493
10. They Shall Have Music (1939)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Family, Music
A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Gene Reynolds
Votes: 500
11. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 842
12. The Careless Years (1957)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
High-school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove; unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch, Barbara Billingsley
Votes: 228
13. Blockade (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday
Votes: 640
14. The Ship from Shanghai (1930)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 148
15. Bachelor Apartment (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York playboy dates wild woman until he falls for a hard-working stenographer.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray, Norman Kerry
Votes: 427
16. Counter-Attack (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, War
During WW2, a Mexican stand-off ensues between a group of German soldiers and a team of Soviet fighters trapped together in the basement of a bombed-out Russian building.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks, Harro Meller
Votes: 565
17. Success at Any Price (1934)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
Joe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of money and fast so he is ambitious ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Frank Morgan, Colleen Moore
Votes: 353
18. Four Sons (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, History, War
After the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Don Ameche, Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Beth Hughes, Alan Curtis
Votes: 146
19. The Sea Bat (1930)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
The West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. Nina loses her brother to the creature and is ... See full summary »
Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford, Nils Asther, George F. Marion
Votes: 298
20. Dream of Love (1928)
65 min | Biography, Drama
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Nils Asther, Joan Crawford, Aileen Pringle, Warner Oland
Votes: 193
21. Party Wire (1935)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Story of a small-town girl victimized by her gossiping neighbors.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Jean Arthur, Victor Jory, Helen Lowell, Robert Allen
Votes: 464
22. The Boss' Son (1978)
101 min | Crime, Drama
Bobby needs money and the easiest way is to ask his father for a job. But Dad decides his son should start at the bottom of his carpet business and earn his way to a better position. Bobby ... See full summary »
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Asher Brauner, Rudy Solari, Rita Moreno, Henry G. Sanders
Votes: 90
23. The Hollywood Ten (1950)
15 min | Documentary, Short, History
A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged of contempt of court after challenging the House of Anti-American Activities and their controversial and ... See full summary »
Director: John Berry | Stars: J. Parnell Thomas, Albert Maltz, Lester Cole, Samuel Ornitz
Votes: 265
24. Good-bye Love (1933)
67 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Wealthy Chester is not Phyllis's first husband. And all pay alimony. After the wedding Chester learns that she has had eyes on a British big game hunter who turns out to be a pretender like Phyllis: Actually he is Chester's butler.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Verree Teasdale, Sidney Blackmer, Phyllis Barry
Votes: 146
25. Earthbound (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Mystery, Fantasy
A murdered man (Baxter) helps his widow (Leeds) bring his killer (Bari) to justice.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 142
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You Must Remember This (2014– )
The Blacklist Part 2: Crossfire - The Trials of the Hollywood Ten
(2016 Podcast Episode)
59 min | History
In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed dozens of Hollywood workers to come to Washington and testify to the presence of Communists in the film industry. 19 of those ... See full summary »
Stars: Karina Longworth, Dore Schary, Louis B. Mayer, John Howard Lawson